Dragon Age The Veilguard is Steam Deck verified, which should ensure a relatively smooth, hiccup free gameplay experience on Valve’s handheld gaming PC. The handheld PC has skyrocketed in popularity since its initial launch, and remains one of the dominant platforms of PC gaming today.
Running Veilguard on the Steam Deck should be relatively straightforward and painless with the Proton Experimental translation layer, but tweaking a few of its graphical settings should allow for a smoother experience overall.
More on these ‘optimized’ settings and expected average frame rates below.
Optimized Dragon Age The Veilguard Steam Deck settings
In-game settings
Display
- Active Monitor: Leave unchanged
- Window Mode: Fullscreen
- Screen Resolution: 1280×800
- Refresh Rate: 60 Hz
- Frame Rate Limit: Off
- V-Sync: Off
- Triple Buffering: Off
- Brightness: Keep at the default value of 50%
- Contrast: Keep at the default value of 50%
- Enable HDR: On; only for Steam Deck OLED models
- HDR Calibration: Adjust as per user preference
- Upscale Method: AMD FSR 2.2
- Upsample Quality: Performance
- Frame Generation: Disabled
- Anti-Aliasing: Disabled
- Render Scale: 100%
- Dynamic Resolution Scaling: On
- Target Frames Per Second: 60
- Minimum Resolution Scale: 70%
Graphics
- Graphics Preset: Custom
- Texture Quality: Low
- Texture Filtering: Low
- Lighting Quality: Low
- Contact Shadows: Off
- Ambient Occlusion: SSAO
- Screen Space Reflection: Off
- Volumetric Lighting: Low
- Sky Quality: Low
- Ray-Traced Reflections: Off
- Ray-Traced Ambient Occlusion: Off
- Ultra Ray Tracing: Off
- Level of Detail: Low
- Strand Hair: Off
- Terrain Quality: Low
- Terrain Decoration Quality: Low
- Visual Effects Quality: Low
- Depth of Field: Cinematics only; personal preference
- Vignette: Off
- Motion Blur: Off; personal preference
- Post Processing Quality: Low
- Field of View: 100%
Steam Deck specific settings
- Frame Rate Limit: 60
- TDP: 15 W
- Battery Drain: 25-20 W
Expect 1.5-4 hours of battery life on the Steam Deck (LCD) and Steam Deck OLED models respectively.
Dragon Age The Veilguard is quite well optimized for PCs, and can run on the Steam Deck with little to no issues. Expect a smooth 40 frames per second outside of combat, with occasional dips in intense scenes and/or gameplay moments.
Overall, the game is rather playable on the Deck.
